I don't watch much television or film, but from what I have seen, there is no recent trend of bad people getting away with it leaving a bunch of defeated heroes and jaded audiences. This century we've gotten LotR, Harry Potter, and the MCU, all very simple stories about Good Guys winning in the end.

March 16, 2026 - 23:45 UTC

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Over the same amount of time, there have been 4 tv shows with wide ranging cultural influence (saw my very first little girl named Khaleesi just the other day) that I think support the idea better. Those are The Sopranos, Lost, Breaking Bad, and Game of Thrones. Of those, I've only seen Breaking Bad
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While the format of television allows for more characters generally and potentially a lot more time to suffuse them with moral complexity as opposed to film, even when the tv shows focus on anti-heroes as protagonists, eventually they still get some sort of ultimate comeuppance, don't they?
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